Uncommon Chess
Chess where the pieces fight
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Chess where the pieces fight for the square. Now with army men, giant mechs, an alien hive, boss fights and chess in four dimensions.
Chess, but the pieces fight for the square.
Every capture in Uncommon Chess is a hand-animated duel between two original characters — the ivory Bone Court against the blued iron of the Iron Court. Thirty-five of them, one for every attacker and defender pairing, each choreographed separately. A pawn taking a rook does not look like a queen taking a pawn.
LEARN TO PLAY
A whole screen for somebody who has never played. How each piece moves, shown on a real board, plus the rules that look like exceptions — check, checkmate, stalemate, castling, en passant, promotion. The diagrams are played by the game's own rules engine, so they cannot be wrong.
SEE IT YOUR WAY
Turn the board, tilt it, zoom in. Watch the fight from wherever you like.
PLAY HOW YOU LIKE
Against the computer at four strengths. Two players passing one device. Four players, two a side. Or online through Game Center — 1v1 and 2v2, with your turn waiting for you whenever you pick the phone up.
FUN MODES
Optional novelty rules for a single match. Anoint a Champion that survives the first attack on it, a Berserker that strikes twice, or a Phantom that slips through anything in its way. Strict chess is the default, is complete, and costs nothing.
THE MATRIX
A real study of 162,000 games between two engines, and — unusually — a plain explanation of what its numbers mean. What a margin of error is. Why more games help only slowly. What the experiment cannot tell you. Written for a child and true for everybody.
No account. No subscription. No data collected.
Ratings & Reviews
A much bigger game.
NEW WAYS TO PLAY
• Mill (Nine Men's Morris), King of the Hill, Three Checks, Atomic, the Horde, Scramble and the Fairy Court.
• Four Boards: chess in four dimensions, one-on-one or two a side.
• Warfare and Elite Hunts: pieces have health, and a capture has to be earned.
• Boss fights: the Colossus, the Lich Queen and the Hollow King, five phases each, alone or with friends.
• Callings: Paladin, Warlord, Warden, Banshee, Necromancer and Empress, each with its own powers and battles.
• Ratings and ladders for every mode, and online play for every game through Game Center, with leaderboards.
• Every mode is free three times a day.
NEW ARMIES
• Plastic Army: little green army men against the tan army, with a flamethrower tank, a bazooka trooper, a war dog and a gunship.
• The Mechs: giant battle robots in a hangar at night, with missiles, jump-jets, energy blades and a mothership beam.
• The Hive: an alien swarm with acid spitters and scythe-armed hunters.
LOOKS AND SOUNDS
• Weapons you can see and hear, and every army dies its own way.
• Sharper battles and smoother animation throughout.
• New music for every theme and for boss fights.
• The board now fills the whole screen on modern iPhones.
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Information
- Seller
- TAMAS HALASZ
- Size
- 48.1 MB
- Category
- Board
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Guns or Other Weapons
Contains
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- Copyright
- © 2026 Enyo Technologies

